Ars TechnicaThe Browsing Company’s unconventional browser Arc releases publicly on Mac
It's still based on Chromium, but the user experience is quite different.
Malu@arstechnica I foresee a subscription model locking really good features in the future with a pared down free version.
🪨@malu @arstechnica According to a FAQ video they made, the plan is to make companies pay for an enterprise license and maybe have a marketplace for "boosts" (which seem to be a better integrated version of add-ons that allow to manipulate a website's CSS or user scripts).
@Varpie @arstechnica sounds more promising. Will keep an eye on developments
catalack@arstechnica Chromium is Chromium though
eingy@arstechnica It’s The Browser Company 😅 not The Browsing Company 🫣
sub_o@arstechnica I've been using it for a day and I'm enjoying it. It's like Vivaldi, but with better UX.
Understandably why people are afraid of using it since it's chromium based and Google is pushing for Internet DRM
They seem to be more of UX company than browser company, so I don't think they are gonna roll out their own browser engine.
Anyway, I hope other companies will incorporate some of their UI choices into their browser.
Understandably why people are afraid of using it since it's chromium based and Google is pushing for Internet DRM
They seem to be more of UX company than browser company, so I don't think they are gonna roll out their own browser engine.
Anyway, I hope other companies will incorporate some of their UI choices into their browser.
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@sub_o i have a firefox userChrome.css stylesheet that makes the browser look and feel a lot like arc. it’s not perfect, but it looks cool and gives me a bunch of vertical real estate back.
Garrett@Gowens true, firefox has none of the cool splitting stuff that Arc has.
Prayag@sub_o @arstechnica I wonder why they wouldn't just use the built-in engines of the platforms they're supporting, like any "web view" frameworks in Windows and macOS? Although at the same time, all the browsers now are Chromium-based, so maybe they're just going with the trend. 🤷🏽♂️
@arstechnica their bet on using Chromium is unfortunate. They wanted to have an engine that's cross platform, support many extensions, and already used by masses.
There was probably less push back if it was released one or two weeks ago. Then came the news about Google's push of whatever DRM internet.
bhcompyGranted it's not news that Google is progressively working on gutting Chromium's capabilities to bypass annoyances Google wants to monetize. Not that I want to rely on them, but I'm sort of betting on a Microsoft fork eventually that preserves some of the underlying features Google is struggling away
coldfusion167@arstechnica my default browser! Glad to see it finally open to the public.
Ishan@arstechnica They have good execution of workspaces. You can hide tabs (something every browser should have) Sidebar is not as effective on smaller screens, there’s too much visual clutter as most website have their tools on left side, like notion, gmail.
That’s my 2 main features after using it for about 6 months.